Cover for spring bed-bottoms



(No Model.)

W. T. HORTON & D. R. SIEFKIN.

covnn FOR SPRING BED BOTTOMS.

No. 369,791. Patented Sept. 18, 1887..

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WVILLIAM THADDEUS HORTON AND DEDRICK B. SIEFKIN, OF BLUE EARTH CITY, MINNESOTA.

COVER FOR SPRING BED BOTTOMS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 369,791, dated September 13, 1887.

Application filed May 31, 1887. Serial No. 239.847. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM THADDEUS HORTON and DEDRIOK R. SIEFKIN, citizens of the UnitedStates, residing at Blue Earth City, in the county of Faribault and State of Minnesota, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Covers for Spring Bed-Bottoms, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in covers for spring bed-bottoms; and it consists in certain details of construction and arrangement hereinafter first fully described, and then pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings hereto annexed, Figure 1 is a top plan view of the bed provided with our improved bed-bottom cover. Fig. 2 is a detail sectional view of the spring, showing the manner of attaching the same to the bedstead and the cover.

Referring to the drawings, in which similar letters denote corresponding parts in all the figures, A designates a bedstead, of any ordinary form, having transverse slats arranged therein, to which are attached spiral springs in the ordinary manner. Over the said spiral springs is spread the flat cover B, having aseries of perforations or eyelet-holes, C, therein extending from each corner in toward the center of the cover.

D D designate spiral springs secured at the outer ends to screw-eyes inserted in the corners of the bedstead, and provided at the inner ends with integral hooks E, to engage in the perforations or eyelets C in thecover. It will be seen that the said hooks E may be inserted in either the extreme outer or inner eyelets or any of the intermediate ones, and therefore the cover is adapted to be secured on a bed of any size.

The springs D are designed to be arranged to either draw up away from the bed-springs, to aid them in supporting the superincumbent weight, or to draw down upon them to render at the corners of the cover renders it impossible for the same to be displaced.

We are aware that it is not new to providespiral springs to support or stretch the cover for the bedsprings; but the arrangement of the said springs as herein shown and described is, we believe, novel.

In Patent No. 259,594: is shown a cover for spring bed-bottoms having its edges attached to the coils of two coiled springs which extend the length of the bedstead and have their ends secured to the end rails of thebedstead. Cur device differs from this in having our springs adjustably secured to the cover by means of hooks,which engage one or another of a series of perforations formed in the cover and extending inward from the corners toward the center of the same. By this construction and arrangement the cover can be more quickly and easily secured in position, and the cover also need not be made of a size corresponding to the size of the bedstead. By securing the hooks at the ends of the springs in the proper perforations, the same cover may be fitted to a single or a double bedstead, as may be desired. This detachable connection of the cover and the springs is very advantageous when it is desired to remove the cover-as, for instance, for washingas its removal can be effected almost instantaneously. Another advantage over the patented device possessed by our arrangement is the fact that our springs pull on the cover from the center diagonally,thus keeping the cover at all times well stretched, both laterally and longitudinally, whereas in the patented device the springs exert no pressure or tension on the cover, and it is liable to work down between the springs of the bed-bottom, and is extremely liable to sag at the center.

Our device is very simple and doe-s not in terfere with the bed or mattress placed on the spring-bottom.

Having thus described the construction and advantages of our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is The combination,with the bedstead and the spring bed-bottom arranged therein, of the cover resting on and extending over the spring- In testimony that we claim the foregoing as 10 bottom and provided at its corners with the our own we have hereto affixed our signatures series of perforations extending inward toward in presence of two witnesses.

its center, and the spiral springs having their outer ends secured to the corners of the bed- HORTON stead and their inner ends provided with hooks which engage the perforations in the cover, Witnesses: whereby the spring exerts a diagonal tension H. J. NEAL, on the cover, substantially as specified. FRED E. SMITH. I 

